Detection of buried objects beneath a rough surface

This paper deals with the detection of a buried object beneath a rough surface in a two-dimensional configuration. A new method for detecting buried objects from wide-band, near-field, multi-static data is suggested. The so-called near-field configuration corresponds to a set of transmitters and receivers located along a line segment in the vicinity of the surface. The detection method proposed here is based on a correlation of the scattered fields from two sets of data associated with two transmitters. A theoretical study in the framework of a low-frequency approximation predicts an enhancement of the correlation peak resulting from cross-terms combining surface and target contributions, as confirmed by rigorous computations. The performance of the detector is tested with respect to both polarization and frequency through computation of the receiver operating characteristic curves.

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